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  Audrey Hanna (left), Fred Church and Evelyn Selbie.
Frame enlargement: courtesy National Film Preservation Foundation.
 
 
The Prospector
(1912) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Arthur Mackley

Cast: Fred Church [Jim Clayton], Arthur Mackley [Sam Dunn], Evelyn Selbie [Dunn’s daughter], Audrey Hanna [Dunn’s granddaughter], [?] Gilbert M. Anderson?

Essanay Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Gilbert M. Anderson. Scenario by Gilbert M. Anderson. / Released 12 December 1912. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / [?] The production was shot at the Essanay studio in Niles (Fremont), California?

Drama: Western.

Survival status: Prints exist in the National Film and Sound Archive film archive [35mm color-tinted nitrate positive, 35mm fine-grain preservation positive (struck 2009)]; and in the Library of Congress film archive [35mm fine-grain preservation positive (struck 2009)].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 1 May 2023.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Website-IMDb; Website-NFSA.

Online viewing: Website-NFPF.

 
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